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Image Not Available for Waiting for the Circus on Albany Avenue, Hartford, 1897
Waiting for the Circus on Albany Avenue, Hartford, 1897
Image Not Available for Waiting for the Circus on Albany Avenue, Hartford, 1897

Waiting for the Circus on Albany Avenue, Hartford, 1897

Date1897
MediumPhotography; collodion print on paper on cardboard mount
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (image height x width): 3 1/16 x 3 13/16in. (7.8 x 9.7cm)
Sheet (height x width): 3 1/16 x 3 13/16in. (7.8 x 9.7cm)
Mount (height x width): 4 3/16 x 5 1/8in. (10.6 x 13cm)
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineThe Newman S. Hungerford Museum Fund
DescriptionSix men and boys sit on a rail fence. Another man and a woman stand beside the fence and a bicycle leans against it. A dirt road is in the foreground. A field is in the background, and part of a tree is visible at the left.
Object number2006.93.100
InscribedOn verso, in black ink, "Fourth of July 1897 / Mr. Russell / E.L.B. / LaMott Russell / Ed. King / Waiting for the circus / on Albany Avenue / at foot of Vine Street"; lower right, in pencil, accession number.
Subject Terms
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